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Maybe I'm being generous, but average is where the rating will stay. And I don't even know if that's appropriate. It's nothing more than just average, at best. This isn't a bad movie, not at all, but, like I said, it's undone by its pacing and the inconsistent nature of anthology style. He was great, particularly in the post-credits sequence, in this role and he really was the most consistently entertaining part of the movie. Though, really, with the way these parts of the film played out, you don't know where Shatner ended and his character in the flick began. All of these segments are connected by a radio show hosted by William Shatner, playing an actual character and not himself. At least the other segments in the film went a little to the crazier side, showing you something you don't see all that often in horror movies, at least in the case of the changeling, since Krampus is picking up on popularity with several movies released. The ghost story at the school didn't do it for me simply because it just didn't really take many risks. I already mentioned the Santa vs elves one.
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At least the other two had a family being hunted down by Krampus and a couple having to deal with a changeling pretending to be their son. And it's my least favorite simply because it's a basic, and not particularly interesting, ghost story. I think my least favorite of the segments would have to be the one that takes place in the school. The twist itself isn't bad and it adds a darker element to the proceedings, but I don't know if it was much of an improvement. The whole 'Santa fighting against zombie elves' was probably the one that I got into the most, but then there's a twist that just negated everything you had seen, at least in that particular Santa vs zombie elves segment. And, if I'm honest, none of the individual segments, taken as a whole, really did much for me.
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And I think that really hurts the movie in the long run because you might get to a really interesting moment in one segment and that's when they cut to another of the segments, completely killing the pacing, making you wait for the payoff to that moment. going from segment to segment, showing you bits and pieces before moving.
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The pacing issues come in the fact that you don't get to see each segment from beginning to end before they move on to the next one. But, of course, much like almost every anthology film in existence, the film suffers from consistency and pacing issues. Yes, it has a Christmas theme and setting for all its stories,this is an anthology horror flick after all, but I wanted to see how they could use the setting to create a horror movie. Which is really the main reason I watched this movie to begin with. Horror movies, on the other hand, work perfectly for every time of the year, it just depends what you're in the mood for, but horror isn't limited to one time of year where they can be enjoyed. Watching a holiday movie on, say, March just isn't the same as watching it during the actual holiday season. And, really, those movies are only really worth watching during the holiday season because they help you get in that mood.
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Mostly because there's not that many that are actually that I would call good, and those that ARE good usually turn the concept on its head or rely on dark humor to be a sorta anti-holiday movie. I've never been the biggest fan of Christmas/holiday movies in general.